Pushing the boundaries of Latin American testimony
Subtitle: meta-morphoses and migrations
By: edited by Louise Detwiler and Janis Breckenridge
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
ISBN-13: 9780230338470
Subjects: Latin American literature; Latin American Reportage literature; Mass media and culture; Literature and society; History and criticism
Description: Revealing twenty-first century contexts, ground-breaking scenarios, and innovative mediums for this highly contested life writing genre, this volume showcases a new generation of testimonio scholarship.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: points of departure / Louise Detwiler and Janis Breckenridge; title: Moving theories: neoliberalism and coalitions. Writing Fabio Argueta: testimonio, ethnography, and human rights in the Neoliberal Age / Leigh Binford; title: Testimonio and its travelers: feminist deployments of a genre in action / Patricia Connolly; title: Positioning oppositional performances: clandestine, reluctant, and false witnesses. Hiding the camera in Miguel Littin's Acta general de Chile / David William Foster; title: Guerilla narratives through the kaleidoscope of time: Nicaragua and the revolution that was / Julia M. Medina; title: Bearing false witness? the politics of identity in Elsa Osorio's My name is light (A veinte anos, Luz) / Nancy J. Gates-Madsen; title: Connected communities: emerging contexts and merging mediums. Testimony in truth commissions and social movements in Latin America / Lynn Stephen; title: Rumors as testimonios of insile in La mujer en cuestion (The woman in question) by Maria Teresa Andruetto / Corinne Pubill; title: Accomplishing "tellable-tellings": managing displays of faith on live radio / Melissa Guzman; title: Embroidered discourse/s break the silence: the CPR-Sierra of Guatemala (Re)vive Testimonio / T. M. Linda Scholz; title: Novel landscapes: counter-geographies, graphics, and terra-trauma. Ciudad Juarez as a palimpsest: searching for ecotestimonios / Alice Driver; title: Drawing the line between memory, history, and artistic re/creation: Miguel Gallardo and Carlos Gimenez's graphic testimonies of Civil War Spain / Janis Breckenridge; title: Witnessing the Earth through Gaspar Pedro Gonzalez's El 13 B'aktun: La Nueva Era 2012 (13 B'aktun: Mayan visions of 2012 and beyond) / Louise Detwiler; title: Conclusion: "something that might resemble a call": testimonial theory and practice in the twenty-first century / Kimberly A. Nance.